Hans Dankner

Hans Dankner (born April 21, 1908 in Dresden ; † March 20, 1945 in Dachau concentration camp ) was a German KPD functionary and resistance fighter against National Socialism .

Life

Dankner's symbolic grave in the grove of honor of the Heidefriedhof

Dankner learned the trade of gardener after elementary school and was active in the Bündische Jugend at an early age . From 1927 he was involved like his brother Max in the Communist Youth Association of Germany (KJVD) and was 1929/30 head of the KJVD sub-district of Leipzig and a member of the Central Committee (ZK) of the youth association.

After the takeover of the Nazis Dankner supported the KPD also in hiding and was arrested in November 1933 and to one year in prison convicted. After serving his sentence, he emigrated to Czechoslovakia in 1934 and was section leader for the KPD East Saxony from 1935 to 1938 in exile . After the Wehrmacht's invasion of Dankner was established in March 1939 in Prague arrested and twelve years ' imprisonment convicted. In 1943 he was extradited to the Gestapo and sent to the Auschwitz concentration camp . He died on March 20, 1945 in the Dachau concentration camp. His symbolic grave is located in the honor grove of the Heidefriedhof in Dresden.

He was a cousin of Fred, Max and Josef Zimmering as well as Lea Grundig and Bruno Goldhammer .

Honors

• Hans-Dankner-Strasse in Dresden has been named after him since 1962.
• The Friends of Nature House "Zirkelsteinhaus" No. 109 Reinhardtsdorf-Schöna bore the name of the Jewish - Communist resistance fighter Hans Dankner during the GDR era .

literature

• Hermann Weber , Andreas Herbst : German communists. Biographical Handbook 1918 to 1945 . 2nd, revised and greatly expanded edition. Dietz, Berlin 2008, ISBN 978-3-320-02130-6 ( online ). However, with incorrect information about the time and place of death.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Dankner, Hans with biographical information in the online database of the Saxon Memorials Foundation